Steve Sinnott

Infobox Person
name = Steve Sinnott


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birth_date = June 24, 1951 [Daily Telegraph Obituary p 27 Issue no 47,538 (dated 7th April, 2008)]
birth_place = Liverpool
death_date = death date and age|2008|04|5|1951|06|2
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known_for = National Union of Teachers General Secretary 2004-2008
occupation = Teacher, Trade union leader

Steve Sinnott (24 June 1951 – 5 April 2008 [cite web|url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3694304.ece|title= Steve Sinnott: General secretary of the National Union of Teachers who was due to lead the teaching strike over pay on April 24|author= |date= April 7, 2008|accessdate= 2008-04-07|publisher= Times Online] ), was the General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers from 2004 until his death in 2008.

Born in Liverpool, Sinnott became deputy General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers in 1994 in the middle of his year as National President of the Union.

Sinnott was the first President of the Union to have attended a comprehensive school. He took a four year BA in Social Sciences at Middlesex Polytechnic, graduating in 1974, and a PGCE at Edge Hill College in Ormskirk in 1975.

His first teaching post in 1975 was at Shorefields Comprehensive in Toxteth, Liverpool, where he taught humanities. In 1979 he moved to Broughton High School near Preston, where he became head of economics and business studies. He stayed with the school until his election as NUT Deputy General Secretary in November 1994 [cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3689161.ece|title= Steve Sinnott, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, has died|author= Kevin Dowling|date= April 5, 2008|accessdate= 2008-04-06|publisher= Times Online] .

Sinnott was an outspoken critic of both teaching salaries and the British Government's City academies, and in his role as General Secretary of the Union, he was to have led the first national teachers strike in the UK since 1987, over the issue of pay [cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article3663256.ece|title =First national teachers’ strike in 21 years will hit pupils preparing for their exams|author= Nicola Woolcock and Alexandra Frean|date= April 2, 2008|accessdate= 2008-04-06|publisher= Times Online] . Following his death from a heart attack, the Union said that the strike would still go ahead [cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article3690542.ece|title= Teachers' leader Steve Sinnott dies but strike to go ahead|author= Jack Grimston|date= April 6, 2008|accessdate= 2008-04-06|publisher= Times Online] [cite web|url=http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2271469,00.html|title= NUT strike to be memorial to union leader|author= Polly Curtis|date= April 7, 2008|accessdate= 2008-04-07|publisher= The Guardian] .

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* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7332251.stm Teacher union leader Sinnott dies] BBC News Online: April 05, 2008
* [http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jV6ajqBOXr3jbFbNLAclo4P7yh6w Teachers' union leader Sinnott dies] The Press Association: April 05, 2008
* [http://education.guardian.co.uk/obituary/story/0,,2271494,00.html Obituary: "Guardian"] April 7, 2008
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2008/04/07/db0702.xml Obituary: "Telegraph"] April 7, 2008
* [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/steve-sinnott-general-secretary-of-the-nut-805419.html Obituary: "Independent"] April 7, 2008